ONE-ON-ONE LIVE CHAT IN FLASH

[.: Pavel :.]

Hello guys,

I am trying to put together a chat application that would reside in my main html page (that also includes my web page swf file).

I want it to be able to show if I am online to accept chat (if not send an email)

It should be chat one-on-one but giving me (the administrator) the option to see other people who might be interested in chat and possibly answer their questions individualy (at the same time.....)

I don't want any interaction between visitors. Only interaction directed to me (or another administrator if I chose to).

Is it possible to have such application embeded in one html?
I have tried to find some examples and found two that were somewhat close but they were using php sites (not in one html).

If anyone knows as off where should I start I would really appriciate any help.
Thanks. Pavel

[Ronald Wernecke]

See Jorges Chat-Tutorial.
You can adapt that to what you want.

[john]

how can i make that chat without using Flashcom?

[Ronald Wernecke]

Hi John,
you need some kind of "inteligence" at the server side to handle the chat.
In cas of Jorges example it's flashcom.
If you have a chat server, you can adapt it to flash use flash clients, when you know how flash works.
Flashcom is a fast and efficient way

[john]

wat do u mean by intelligence? ive heard of backend and middle-ware but wat is intelligence?  can i use flashcom on a free host like tripod?  is theree any other type of intelligence i can use?

[Ronald Wernecke]

check with tripod, but I doubt it.
The least you need is php support and the right to use other ports than 80 (ports higher than 1024).
If you cannot use this, you can do pseudo-chat, which is on most free servers not allowed, because it takes a lot of performance.
BTW: tripod has bad performance anyway

[john]

i can look into other hosts, I kno the tripod im using supports php, but im not sure about ports higher than 80, how can i check?  I need all of this for 1 on 1 chatting, how exactly does 1 on 1 work, connecting to IP's?

[Ronald Wernecke]

Hi John,
there are different choices you can make.
Either you use one of the free chatsystems available at the market (without flash support, as fa as I know them), or do a simple shoutbox with mySQL storing the last comment, or change the provider with flashcom support (as far as I know not free) and write a flash chat like Jorges.

[john]

do you have any tutorials on making a fash shoutbox with just a flat txt file?  I was searching for one on the web when I found this forum thing when someone was asking about it.  As you get to the end you might see a post by rjm, read that one very carefully...

http://forum.deviantart.com/galleries/flash/123752/

by any chance, is that tutorial still here?

[Ronald Wernecke]

Hi John,
if you have to do it with a flat table, have a look at our guestbook tutorial.
You can give different names for different users - and you got it.

[john]

ok,
thanx, i forgot that didn't use mySql

[john]

ok, im trying to make a simple tag-board first.  this is where its locates, u got to zoom in, right-click-->zoom in, the tag-board is on the right,nothing is loading and when u type somethingi n u get an error, any ideas y?

[Ronald Wernecke]

Pleas give more details.
Some source and a link would help
Allways, if you get an error, print the error text

[john]

this is the zip with the php, txt, and fla

http://members.lycos.co.uk/flashtag/tagboard.zip

copy and paste, when i hit the link it didn't work

[Ronald Wernecke]

Hi John,
I hab a quick loock at it.
Are you using flash 5?

You've been using the php script for the guestbook, as I suggested. But you did not change everything to adapt to the new file.

On some sections it still says GuestBook.

So there is no wonder, that its not running smoothly.

I dont have the time right now to do it for you. As far as I could see, you understand how it works. All you have to do, is to find the time to do it consequently step by step.

Good luck - and if you get stuck, just post here.
There is allways time for little hints